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If you thought of airlines, roads and railroads for transportation, you are correct.
Communication, of course, includes newspapers, magazines and books as well as TV and radio broadcasting.
And utilities as you probably know are companies that provide us with gas, water and electricity.
In the United States, these jobs are not part of the government services, as they are in many countries.
Transportation, communication and utilities are provided by private companies and account for 5 of the 100 workers we began with.
Before we leave our first topic, let's check to make sure you have all the figures for 76 workers in the service industries:
25 in community, social and personal services, 23 in wholesale and retail trade, 17 in government,
6 in finance, insurance and real estate, and last, 5 in transportation, communication and utilities.
Before I discuss the work ethic, I'd like to make a slight digression and get back to the question of working women.
Would you be surprised if I said that most of the female population aged 16 and over work, as a matter of fact, the actual figure is 58%.
The figure for mothers with children under 18 years of age is even higher: 67%
That two thirds of mothers are employed certainly has an economic impact on the country and no doubt influences to some extent the character of the American family.
But we'll look at that in the later lecture. Now that we've taken care of that digression, let's talk about our last topic: the work ethic.
I asked you earlier if you felt people in the United States worked hard. Well, I'm not sure what your opinion is, but a strong work ethic means that workers take their work seriously.
Workers with a strong work ethic feel an obligation to work hard, expect little time for recreation, and take pride in doing their job well.
According to surveys, most Americans do have a strong work ethic, that is they felt they should work hard.
The problem is that they do not always do so.
And the reason they give for not working harder is that they don't feel they well benefit from the work.
Others, like the owners of the company, will benefit instead.
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